2024-10-05 3:17:04 ¶ ●

No—it is so interesting. Will has remained consistent all his life until season 1 episode 1. He used to work in homicide; he was compelled to quit because he couldn’t kill someone. Couldn’t live with the consequences of being haunted by a ghost. Couldn’t pass the FBI screening test and chose to become a lecturer instead. Contributing to his field in this way. In Aperitif, Hannibal inadvertently corners Will into killing Hobbs. Well, Will could have chosen not to. Maybe there was no choice. Maybe that is how entropy works (and I love thinking about Hannibal like this instead of in terms of good or evil)—and… And we get our main character Will Graham who changes in episode 1. We meet a man and are forced to witness his life’s metamorphosis together with him, and that is the beginning of the story. This is where we start. That is SUCH good writing. Such a fascinating idea. Executed so well. I really do love it.